“Beaux knows art? Beaux… you ain’t know diddley!”

Top left: Installation view of “Richard Learoyd: Curious” at the Pace Gallery Top Center: “Naked Man, Back View” from Lucian Freud: Monumental” at Acquavella Gallery / Top Right: Detail of “The Martyrdom of Icarus” at “Raqid Shaw: Landscapes” at the Pace Chelsea / Bottom Left: “The Martyrdom of Icarus” by Raqid Shaw / Bottom center: […]

Stitch Stitch Sizzle Sizzle

Simphiwe Ndzube Goddess Nanana

Simphiwe Ndzube “Goddess Nanana”, 2018  Acrylic, spray paint and collage on linen 78 8/10 x 94 9/10 “Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Hey diddle diddle, Stitch stitch sizzle sizzle The collagist, the needle, the loom Smitten, the art world jumped over the moon. The artist Simphiwe Ndzube It’s a novel […]

In the Studio with Painter Wang Ziping 王子平

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Slide 1: Wang Ziping, “Daydreaming” 白日梦, (2018) oil on canvas 布面油画 30 x 48 in. / Signed by the artist / JY&ANY30013 Slide 2: Wang Ziping, “Holding You Like a Giant Peach” 象拥抱一个大桃子一样拥抱你, (2016) Oil on canvas 布面油画 16 x 20 in. / Signed by the artist / JY&ANY30011 Slide 3: Wang Ziping, “Piping System” […]

Minions, Molls, and Masked Marauders: The World of Rosalyn Drexler

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Slide 1: Rosalyn Drexler, “Rub Out” (1982) acrylic and paper collage on canvas 30 x 40 in. Slide 2: “Chuck Watches Rescue” (1989) Slide 3: “Woman Sawed in Half” (1989) Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 in. Slide 4: “Shoot to Kill (Breaking News)” (2014) Acrylic and paper collage 40 x 30 in. Slide 5: […]

Saucy? He’s Just Getting Started! Artist: Felipe Jesus Consalvos

Slide 1: “You Can’t Forget” Collage on paper c. 1920-1960’s 57 ⅝ x 33 ½ in. The Fleisher Ollman Gallery , Philadelphia, PA Slide 2: “The American System” c. 1920-1960’s Collage on paper 58 ¾ x 32 in. Slide 3: “Everyday Housekeeping” c. 1920-1960’s Mixed media collage on paper board, double-sided 13 ⅜ x 10 […]

The Fascinating Work of Sculptor Krzysztof Mathews

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Slide 1: “Overdrive” (2018) Found objects construction, ergonomic keyboard. headphones, handles, inkjet printer parts, beads. aircraft parts, acrylic staining, airbrush and enamel. Slide 2: “The Dream Eater” Slide 3: “Inshaa, the Reclaimer” Slide 4: Krzysztof in the studio, Warwick, Rhode Island. Slide 5: “Harbinger” Images granted by permission of the artist. Previous Next Slide 1: […]

Artist: Catherine Opie

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Catherine Opie: ​The Modernist:​ Installation view and detail Catherine Opie The Modernist​ at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York through January 12, 2019 To view Catherine Opie’s new film, a 21:44 minute photo-roman, at the Lehmann Maupin gallery, is disturbingly hypnotic. The film, her first, is comprised of 852 black-and-white well-knit photographs that follow a fictional […]

Eyes Wide Shut: Erotica Alive and Well

Ana Benaroya’s “Mind Games” 2018 spray paint, acrylic and oil on canvas 48 x 36 in. at Postmasters “NSFW”

It’s not everyday that this writer is greeted by a parade of dental dams, leather whips and bobbing dildos poised like birds-of-paradise. But such was the giddy scene at the entrance to the salacious Museum of Sex. Then and there, the ubiquitous theme of erotica, blazing like a siren call, hit this writer like an […]

Artist: Enrique Chagoya

Detail and video of “The Enlightened Savage’s Guide to Economic Theory” (2010) Acrylic, water based oils, decals, collage, solvent transfers and pencil on handmade amate paper 15 1/2 x 109 in. Now at the George Adams Gallery “30 Years: Frumkin/Adams”  from November 9 – December 22, 2018 http://www.georgeadamsgallery.com/ If you’re serious about collage or work […]

The Maverick Vision of Artist James Rosenquist

Top: “Lanai” (1964) Oil on canvas 62 x 88 in. / Bottom Left: “In the Red” (1962) Oil on canvas 66 ¼ x 78 ¼ in. Center: “Untitled” (Blue Sky) (1962) Oil on canvas 84 x 72 in. Right: Detail of “The Lines Were Deeply Etched on the Map of Her Face” (1962 ) Oil on canvas […]